Poem-a-Day
Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
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Effie Lee Newsome: "Exodus"
1 min
1527
Bruce Nugent: "Shadow"
1 min
1528
Patricia Smith: "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wan...
4 min
1529
Cornelius Eady: "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"
3 min
1530
Afaa Michael Weaver: "Midnight Air in Louisville"
3 min
1531
Marie Howe: "My Dead Friends"
2 min
1532
Tim Seibles: "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
4 min
1533
Elizabeth Curtis Holman: "We Pulled a Rose in S...
1 min
1534
Waring Cuney: "No Images"
1 min
1535
Gail Mazur: "The Flea"
3 min
1536
Brandon D. Johnson: "Standing by a Shelf"
3 min
1537
Carl Phillips: "Why So This Quiet"
2 min
1538
Laure-Anne Bosselaar: "Late Afternoon Stroll on...
3 min
1539
E. Ethelbert Miller: "Crossing the Line"
2 min
1540
Helene Johnson: "Trees at Night"
2 min
1541
Arna Bontemps: "Length of Moon"
1 min
1542
Kimiko Hahn: "[The whale already]"
2 min
1543
Robert Pinsky: "Revisionary"
3 min
1544
Martín Espada: "Wake Up, Mario"
9 min
1545
Marilyn Nelson: "Last Mattress"
3 min
1546
Garrett Hongo: "On 'Phantasmagorique #15,' a Pa...
3 min
1547
Clarissa Scott Delany: "Joy"
1 min
1548
Langston Hughes: "As I Grew Older"
2 min
1549
Linda Susan Jackson: "Nailing Things Down"
3 min
1550
Joel Dias-Porter: "Three Wrong Notes"
3 min